Monday, March 30, 2015

The Challenge - First Anniversary!

I have been asked to join those fun girls over at The Challenge as they celebrate their first anniversary with news - head over, won't you? It is a really fun place to play cards!!

This week the theme is Anything Goes - with a prize: a $20 gift card from our fabulous sponsor:

I just won a gift certificate from Sugar Pea during the Spring Coffee Blog-Hop - sadly it hasn't arrived quite yet, but watch for a few cards when it does! Thanks again, Wendy Ramlakhan, for your oh so generous nature!

Okay... here's my card:

If it's your first visit to my blog, you'll find I am a bit late to the party on occasion... there is a trend I've been seeing around recently that I wanted to check out.

I tried my hand at velveteen stamping... the lighting wasn't cooperating, but you'll catch a bit of it in the background of the YAY stamp. Here is a fabulous video from Shari Carroll on her Hero Arts YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/ZVryY_w297U Shari will explain it much better than I ever could =]

Thanks, Lesley for inviting me, and to the team for giving me such a warm welcome! Congratulations on your first of many, many celebrations to come =]

Congrats on your GD. They are lucky to have you. Love your card, and I am in the dark about Velveteen stamping. So if you are late to the party, consider that I didn't even know there was a party going on! Thanks for the link to the video so I can see what the fuss is all about.

Cheering that you're one of The Challenge gals, sharing inspiration for this Year One milestone. Your card: only Yay! Yay! Awesome! I'm going to scope out the velveteen video after my gallery walk through your cards! Congrats on the Sugar Pea win...looking forward to your showcases!Hugs~c

Simple but bright and celebratory. That's what this card says to me. I bought some stamps a long time ago to do what I learned as "kiss" stamping which I think is the same as velveteen, but haven't used them much. If I could just remember all these techniques when it comes time to make a card.